Poultry-hanger.



PATENTED DEC. 22, 1903.

A. HILDEBRANDT. POULTRY HANGER. APPLICATION nun MAR. 11, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

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UNrTED- STATES Patented December 22, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

POULTRY-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 747,606, dated December 22, 1903.

Application filed March 11, 1901. $erial1l'o. 50,568. (No model.)

To a. whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, ADOLPH HILDEBRANDT, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to poultry-hangers; and it has for its object to provide an improved device of this class whereby poultry may be conveniently hung in market, cold storage, or elsewhere and which shall obviate the necessity of tying the legs of the bird before hanging, as is now customary.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved poultry-hanger, illustrating the same in use. Fig. 2 is a detail side view'of the hanger. Fig. 3 is a detail top plan view of the same.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are denoted by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates my improved poultry-hanger,which consists of a body member 2, with which the bird is directly connected, and a suspension member 3,whereby the body member may be suspended from a hook, nail, or other support, as at 4.

The body member 2 in the preferred form of construction embodiesaplurality of clamping members 5, between which the legs of the bird are gripped to firmly support the same.

The body member 2 extends in a horizontal plane, and the suspension member 3 extends in a vertical plane and projects centrally from the body member, whereby the weight of the suspended poultry is evenly maintained.

The hanger 1 consists in the preferred form of construction of a single length of stifi spring-wire 6, which is looped centrally, as at 7, to form the suspension member 3, and the end portions 8 of which are formed into the body member 2, being oppositely laterally directedfrom thelowerend of the centrallooped portion. Informingthebodymember2eachof the end portionsSof the wireisbentoutwardly and forwardly from the base of the suspension member, as at 9, and is formed into two broad open loops 10, which are connected by a narrow or contracted loop 11, which is reversely arranged with respect to the loops 10. The extreme end 12 of each of the end portions 8 terminates substantially in theverti- .legs between the clamping members.

cal plane of the central looped portion 7 of the wire. The outer sides of the loops 10 and the combined inner sides of'the loops 10 and the sides of the loops 11, into which each of the end portions is formed, constitute the clamping members 5. It will be noted that the body member 2 consists of two parts, which are arranged side by side and laterally of the suspension member, which projects vertically between the same, and that the body member is arranged forwardly of the plane of the suspension member. The

loops 1O taper in form toward their open sides, as illustrated, whereby the, legs of the birds may be more efiectually retained within the same.

Each leg of the fowl may occupy a separate loop or both may be held by the same membar, and they may be inserted therein either from the rear or front, according as the hanger yield slightly and bind positively upon the legs to support the bird. The relatively greater size of the feet of the bird will prevent the bird from falling, due to the slipping of the The arrangement of the body member 2 laterally of the suspension member and at both sides of the same, as well as forwardly of the suspension member, permits of hanging the device flat against a wall or other support for the convenient suspension of the poultry.

It willbe noted that a number of birds may be accommodated by one of the improved hangers by bunching the legs between the clamping members, or a single bird may be suspended from the same by spreading the legs and connecting them, respectively, with opposite ends of the body member. The suspension of poultry by means of the abovegle plane nearly at right angles to said loop,

to form a plurality of open holding-loops having slightlycontracted mouths, and with their rear ends terminating in a line in the plane of the suspension-loop, whereby the holding-loop may be sprung open to receive and retain the legs of the fowl, and the hanger may be caused when suspended to lie close against a vertical support.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

ADOLPH HILDEBRANDT.

Witnesses:

GEO. VAIL HUPPERTZ, J. R. LITTELL. 

